Note 691 — BOOK IV[649]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The juxtaposition of the names of Julien and Clarke, is somewhat forced. Edward Clarke was not Cook's valet, but his companion and his rival in fame. He three times circumnavigated the world. Both left Plymouth together, on the 12th of July 1776, Captain Cook commanding the Discovery and Captain Clarke the Resolution. After the death of Cook, killed by the natives of Owhyhee, on the 14th of February 1779, Clarke succeeded him in the command of the expedition, and himself died as he was arriving in Kamchatka. The Discovery and the Resolution returned to England on the 4th of October 1780.—B.